When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

David Cronenberg
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The philosopher Kierkegaard was a man who stuck his head up to see the world from a different angle, and he certainly stuck it out in the muck. He was a man who held philosophies that were often difficult, distasteful, and even unpopular, but he stuck with them. He also took on unpopular jobs as a result of those beliefs. In the words of the philosopher George Santayana, “Philosophy is not merely thinking about what you think about. It is thinking about it from the point of view of those you think about.”

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